About

Dr. Katie Mollan is a Principal Biostatistician in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the Assistant Director of the UNC CFAR Biostatistics Core. She has two decades of professional experience in clinical and public health research and has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles. She has contributed to key areas of research on testing, prevention, and therapeutics for HIV, cervical cancer, Covid19, and Lassa fever. Mollan earned a PhD in Epidemiology (UNC Chapel Hill) and an MS in Statistics (The Ohio State University). Katie Mollan leads the statistical/epidemiologic design and analysis of clinical trials (phases II-IV) and longitudinal cohort studies (real world evidence) and mentors graduate-level trainees in collaborative research. Her research interests include comparative effectiveness, pharmacoepidemiology, causal inference, implementation science, infectious diseases, and mental health. She has analyzed a broad range of clinical, laboratory, and patient-reported outcomes data. Mollan previously worked at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2006-2012, AIDS Clinical Trials Group), served as a Statistical Editor for OFID (2014-2021), and was founder of the UNC CFAR’s undergraduate internship program (2017). She is currently a voting member on two external data safety monitoring boards.